Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

The pandemic may have stolen many of the headlines of 2020, but this year has been a bumper year for other science, too. Can ...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

A brain tumor can strike anyone at any age, impacting a person’s very essence — everything from cognition and personality to movement and speech — if it’s fast-growing and aggressive. It can be the ...

Octopuses are unlike almost any other animal. With 8 arms, 9 brains, and over 500 million neurons, they can solve problems, escape through tiny spaces, and change color in seconds. Their soft bodies ...

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Lab-grown neuron groups can mimic parts of the human brain and help researchers study both the brain’s development and disorders. Now researchers have started linking these “organoids” to proto-spinal ...

It was personal when Pat Schultz enrolled her German shepherd-poodle mix in the Dog Aging Project. Her husband was suffering from Alzheimer's at the time, and the project her dog was participating in ...